Check-book.



P. W. SCHWANDER.

CHECK BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT`20. i915.

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PETER W. SGHWANDER, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.

. CHECK-BOOK.

Application filed September 20, 1915.

To aZZ 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, PETER W. SCHWANDER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Houston, in the county of I-Iarris and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Books, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in a check book. A

As the ordinary check book is now formed, it is inconvenient to use, inasmuch as the check stub is located near the binding of the book and is comparatively inaccessible.

The object of this invention is to provide a check book having extra sheets, the outer margins of which are provided with stubs, corresponding to the checks and the remainder of said extra sheet is ruled in journal book form, to which the items may be transferred from said stubs, the extra sheet being removable along perforated lines and being provided with the perforations so that they may be transferred from the check book and bound into a loose-leaf volume. A complete record in journal book form may thus be accurately and conveniently kept.

'Vith the above and other objects in view, the invention has particular relation to certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts and use, an example of which is given in this specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wheren Figure l, shows a fragmentary plan view of the check book in open position.

Fig. 2, shows an edge view thereof in closed position, and

Fig. 3, shows a plan view of the stub journal sheet the reverse side of which is also shown in the rear thereof.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings wherein like numerals of reference designate similar parts in each of the figures, the numeral 1, refers to the covering, in which is bound, in the ordinary manner, a plurality of check sheets 2, which are separated by perforated lines into the checks 3, 3, 3, of the ordinary and well-known form. Underneath said check sheets and bound therewith, is a plurality of stub journal sheets 4. These sheets 4, are considerably longer than the check sheets 2, as shown in Figs. l and 2, and the extended margins thereof are formed by suitable ruling, into Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 51,669.

'forated line 5, and transferred to a loose-leaf volume, said sheet having the perforations 6, 6, to'permit it to be secured in said volume. As before stated, all of the sheet 4, except the stub portion is ruled into journal book form and the items of the check stubs may be readily transferred from said stubs to the proper accounts of the ournal sheet proper. This operation can be very easy and conveniently done, inasmuch as all of the check stubs and the data contained therein are easily accessible to the accountant, being a part of the sheet 4. From the journal portion of the sheet 4, the accounts may be transferred to the ledger in the usual manner. The reverse side of each sheet 4, may also be ruled into journal book form, if desired, so as to give space for a greater number of accounts, in cases where a large number of accounts is kept.

Vhat I claim is:

A device of the character described consisting of a plurality of sheets each separated by perforated lines into sections containing check data, a plurality of consecutively arratentea npr. lo, iai a.

ranged stub sheets all lying together and being underneath the perforated sheets and projecting beyond the free edge of the latter, all of said sheets being bound together in book form and the underlying sheets being ruled into journal form and the projecting portion thereof forming the ordinary check stub, each stub sheet having a perforated line near the binding margin along which itmay be readily detached.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' PETER W. SCHWANDER. Witnesses: J. A. WATSON, F. A. LIDDELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

